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James Galea
James Galea is an Australian magician and actor based in Sydney and Los Angeles. Early life and education Galea was introduced to the art of magic at the age of 14. He spent most of his youth studying sleight of hand magic, practicing for eight hours a day. He also attended Marcellin College Randwick, graduating in 1998. Career In 1999, at age 18, Galea performed at James Packer's first wedding. That same year also saw him open his own stage show in Japan. In 2002, Galea became the Australian Close-Up Magic Champion. In 2005 and 2006, Galea headlined venues, including the famed Magic Castle in Hollywood and the Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. On returning from the United States, Galea filmed a six-part series for the Nine Network titled ''Urban Magic''. After a chance meeting in 2007, Galea teamed up with writer, actor, and director Nicholas Hammond to co-write the play ''Lying Cheating Bastard''. The plot follows the story of infamous Australian con-man Jimmy G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney, Australia
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and List of cities in Oceania by population, Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountains (New South Wales), Blue Mountains to the west, City of Hawkesbury, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". The 2021 census recorded the population of Greater Sydney as 5,231,150, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. Nicknames of the city include the 'Emerald City' and the 'Harbour City'. Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the Greater Sydney region for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. , videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google's ownership of YouTube expanded the site's business model, expanding from generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subscription option for watching content without ads. YouTube also approved creators to participate in Google's AdSense program, which seeks to generate more revenue for both parties ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropicana Las Vegas
The Tropicana Las Vegas is a casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned and operated by Bally's Corporation, on land leased from Gaming and Leisure Properties. It offers 1,467 rooms, a gaming floor, and of convention and exhibit space. This location, the Tropicana – Las Vegas Boulevard intersection, has the most hotel rooms of any intersection in the world. Pedestrians are not allowed to cross at street level. Instead, the Tropicana is linked by overhead pedestrian bridges to its neighboring casinos: to the north across Tropicana Avenue, the MGM Grand, and to the west across the Strip, the Excalibur. History In 1955, Ben Jaffe, an executive of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, came to Las Vegas and bought a 40-acre parcel at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Bond Road (now Tropicana Avenue). Jaffe aimed to build the finest hotel in Las Vegas, featuring a Cuban ambience, with four room themes for guests to choose from: French Provincial, Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about long, and is immediately south of the Las Vegas city limits in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, but is often referred to simply as "Las Vegas". Many of the largest hotel, casino, and resort properties in the world are on the Strip, known for its contemporary architecture, lights, and wide variety of attractions. Its hotels, casinos, restaurants, residential high-rises, entertainment offerings, and skyline have established the Strip as one of the most popular and iconic tourist destinations in the world and is one of the driving forces for Las Vegas's economy. Most of the Strip has been designated as an All-American Road, and the North and South Las Vegas Strip routes are classified as Nevada Scenic Byways and National Scenic Byways. Boundaries Historically, casinos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Festival
Sydney Festival is a major arts festival in Australia's largest city, Sydney that runs for three weeks every January, since it was established in 1977. The festival program features in excess of 100 events from local and international artists and includes contemporary and classical music, dance, circus, drama, visual arts and artist talks. The festival attracts approximately 500,000 people to its large-scale free outdoor events and 150,000 to its ticketed events, and contributes more than A$55 million to the economy of New South Wales. History The origins of the Sydney Festival are in the Waratah Festival which was established in 1956 by the Sydney Committee and took place from late October to early November, coinciding with the blooming of the NSW emblematic flower the Waratah. It was an important cultural event which included a parade, a popular art competition, beauty contests, exhibitions, performances and the Lord Mayor's reception at the Sydney Town Hall. Sydney Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Band Of Magicians
Band of Magicians is a touring illusion show featuring a group of magicians billed as “The World’s First Magic Supergroup”. The original group featured magicians James Galea, Justin Flom, Justin Willman, and Nate Staniforth. The current group includes James Galea, Stuart MacLeod, Brett Loudermilk, and Joel Ward. The group is unique because magicians traditionally perform as solo or duo acts, and sometimes with assistants who rarely share top-billing. Other touring shows featuring multiple magicians, such as '' The Illusionists'' and ''The Supernaturalists'', feature an assortment of solo acts with performers rarely sharing the stage at the same time. The Band of Magicians was conceived as a way to perform illusions that individual performers couldn't get away with alone. Galea has said, "What we've done with this is create brand new illusions for the show that could not be done by anyone else. Simply for the fact that it takes four professional magicians to be able to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beejan Land
Beejan Land (; born 14 February in Paddington, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian actor and playwright. He graduated from National Institute of Dramatic Art and Newtown High School of the Performing Arts Beejan also trained at the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. Beejan is also a graduate of ACTT's Talented Young Actors' Program, National Institute of Dramatic Art Acting and Playwrighting programs. He also trained at Australian Theatre for Young People. Early performing life Beejan was born in Sydney Australia and is of Iranian/Persian origins. He started his performing career as a young magician. Performing at events and parties he quickly began to develop a name as a magician. In 1998 he was awarded first place Australian Convention of Magicians competition in the Walk on Walk off Section. He then began taking after school acting classes at the Australian Theatre for Young People in 1999. He took classes in Film, Theatre and Voice as well as mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Morgan
Bonnie Patricia Morgan is a female contortionist and actress. Early life Morgan was born to actor Gary Morgan and grew up in a family of circus performers. She has a sister, Molly, who is also an actress. She is a professional body manipulator, and has performed as a clown and studied as a classical actor. Career Becoming a professional contortionist, Morgan has appeared in many known movies such as '' Piranha 3D'', '' Minority Report'', ''Fright Night'' and has made an appearance as Beth in the short film ''Sorority Pillow Fight'' (alongside Michelle Rodriguez). She also provided stunts in '' Hellboy II: The Golden Army'', for which she was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture, and in the William Brent Bell's documentary-style horror film '' The Devil Inside''. She acted as well in several commercial spots and holds a record registered in the Guinness World Records having spent around three minutes with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stickles
Peter Stickles (born October 8, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the voyeuristic Caleb in the John Cameron Mitchell film ''Shortbus'' and as Damian, leader of a gay vampire cult, in the Here TV original series ''The Lair''. Career Stickles was cast in ''Shortbus'' in 2003 from amongst some 400 actors who submitted audition tapes for the film, which was initially known as "Sex Film Project." No script had been written prior to casting and the story was built out of improvisational sessions once the cast was in place. The voyeuristic aspect of Caleb's character grew in part out of Stickles's own interests at the time. "I was exploring sex clubs at the time and not necessarily participating but watching from afar. I think John Cameron Mitchell was attracted to the idea of this whole voyeuristic aspect of the character. ... How far would you go to touch somebody from afar?" Stickles, along with others in the cast, was nominated for the Gotham Independent Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropfest
Tropfest is the world's largest short film festival. It has also become known as the world's first global film festival. Founded by actor/director John Polson, Tropfest began in 1993 as a screening for 200 people at the 'Tropicana Caffe' in Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia, but has since become the largest platform for short films in the world. Tropfest Australia usually takes place in February each year in Sydney and it has been broadcast live via free-to-air television as well as global streaming and catch up. Sydney Tropfest 2015 was cancelled less than a month before it was scheduled to run. After much support on social media, Tropfest founder Polson announced in early December 2015 that extra funding had been sourced, and the festival took place in Centennial Park on Sunday, 14 February 2016. In August 2016 it was announced that from February 2017 Sydney's Tropfest would be held in Parramatta in western Sydney, in Parramatta Park. Entry requirements Tropfest differs fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Hanlin
Benjamin Scott Hanlin (born 26 March 1986) is an English magician and presenter, known for presenting the ITV2 series '' Tricked'' from 2013 to 2016. In 2020, Hanlin competed in the twelfth series of '' Dancing on Ice'', where he finished in fourth place. Career Hanlin presented a series called ''Breaking Magic'' for the Discovery Channel, as well as being a continuity presenter for CBBC. From 2013 to 2016, Hanlin presented three series of '' Tricked'' on ITV2. In January 2016, Hanlin joined Capital Birmingham hosting a Saturday afternoon show, which was later cancelled. However, he still covers Capital Breakfast on Capital Birmingham. In January 2020, Hanlin began competing in the twelfth series of '' Dancing on Ice''. On 1 March 2020, he finished in fourth place, alongside professional partner Carlotta Edwards Professional skaters from the British television show '' Dancing on Ice'' are figure skaters who appear with celebrities in front of a panel of judges. Most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Programs Broadcast By Discovery Channel
This is a list of television programs formerly or currently broadcast by the Discovery Channel, in the United States. Current programming The following programs are currently airing on Discovery Channel: * ''A Cut Above'' * '' Alaska: The Last Frontier'' * ''Alaskan Bush People'' * ''BattleBots'' * ''Bee Czar'' * '' Bering Sea Gold'' * ''Billy Buys Brooklyn'' * ''Brink of Disaster'' * '' Deadliest Catch'' * '' Deadliest Catch: Bloodline'' * ''Deadliest Catch: The Viking Returns'' * '' Diesel Brothers'' * ''Dirty Jobs'' * '' Expedition Unknown'' * '' Expedition X'' * ''Gold Rush'' * '' Gold Rush: Dave Turin's Lost Mine'' * '' Gold Rush: Freddy Dodge's Mine Rescue'' * '' Gold Rush: Parker's Trail'' * '' Gold Rush: White Water'' * ''Growing Belushi'' * ''Hoffman Family Gold'' * '' Josh Gates Tonight'' * ''Lone Star Law'' * ''Louisiana Law'' * '' Moonshiners'' * ''Moonshiners: American Spirit'' * '' Moonshiners: Master Distiller'' * ''Mysteries of the Abandoned'' * ''Mysteries of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
